Bag-dispensing cabinet



0. SWIFT.

BAG msPENslNG CABINET.

APPLVCATION FILED FEB. 13, 1920. 1,362,058. Patented De@.14,1920.

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0. SWIFT.

BAG DISPENSING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I3, 1920.

1,362,058. Patented Dec.14,1920.

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to form a back-turned Hap.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAG-DISPENSING CABINET.

Application led. February 13, 1920.

10 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER SWIFT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Dispensing Cabinets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willv enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly eiiicient bag dispensing` cabinet especially adapted for use to contain and to deliver, one at a time, folded paper bags for use in grocery stores and various other places where paper bags are used in quantities.

It is a well known fact that paper bags come from the factory folded fiat with their bottom forming portions turned under, so as In accordance with my invention, these flat folded bags are placed in a stack within a drawer that serves as the movable bag discharging` element of the cabinet. The drawer, at its rear end, is open, and the drawer is provided with a slot in its bottom. `Working below the bottom of the drawer is a relatively fixed bag-ejecting blade which works up through the slot in the bottom of the drawer and is engageable with the backturned flap of the lowermost bag to project the same from the drawer, through a discharge slot in the front end thereof, when the said drawer is moved outward and is then again moved inward to its closed position.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section taken through the cabinet on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken approXimately on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a perspective -view showing a drawer supporting plate with ejecting blade; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing one of the bags and illustrating the manner in which it is folded.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

serial No. 358,413.

By reference, first to Fig, 5, it will be noted that the bags a are folded fiat, and that their bottom forming portions are folded so that they form backwardly projecting flapsld, and here it may be stated that these bags, in a stack, are placed with their flaps 1a downward, or on their undersides, so that when placed in a drawer, there will always be a flap 1"L at the bottom of the stack.

The numeral G indicates a cabinet made of wood, or any other suitable material, and as shown, having but one drawer compartment, in which a drawer is mounted to slide. In practice, of course, the cabinet may be provided with any .desired number of drawer compartments, and drawers therein, and such drawers may be made of any suitable size, either containing' sacks of the same size, or for containing sacks of different sizes.

The drawer 7, at its front end, has an operating knob S, and adjacent to its bottom, at its front end, has a bag discharge port 9. In the bottom of the drawer is a large longitudinal slot 10, and the said drawer, at its rear end, is, preferably, open, although this latter feature is not highly important. The stack of sacks a placed in the drawer, are placed with their bottom forming ends at the front end of the drawer, and their rear edges at the rear of the drawer. The drawer bottom is provided with an upwardly projecting pin 11 that is adapted to be passed through the rear turned mouthforming edges of the sacks, for a purpose which will presently appear.

To keep the sacks pressed down at their front ends, I provide a flat weight 12 shown as pivotally connected by a cross bail 13 to the pronged end of a forked spring arm 14, the rear prongs of which are pivoted to bosses 15 on the sides of the drawer.

The drawer is arranged to slide directly upon a sheet metal plate or false bottom 16 that is provided with a forwardly extended spring ejecting blade 17, the free end of which, by its own spring tension, is yieldingly pressed upward through the front portion of the slot 10 in the bottom of the drawer. The free front end of the ejecting blade 17 is forward of the back-turned flap 1a of the lowermost bag of the stack, when the drawer is in its rear position.

The numeral 18 indicates laterally spaced upwardly bent bearing strips secured on the bottom of the drawer in position to engage the bottom bag of the stack on opposite sides of the slot 10, and at points rearward of the back-turned flap 1n of the lower' bag of the stack, so as to thereby slightly raise the bottom sack and give the flap 11 a chance to separate slightly therefrom.

Vhen the drawer 7 is drawn outward, the sacks will be carried therewith, and when the flap 1fL of the bottom bag is drawn forward of the free end of the ejecting blade 17, the latter will spring up into engagement with the body of the bottom bag at the rear of said flap l, and then when the drawer is closed or moved back to its innermost position, this ejecting blade 17 will engage between the body and the flap 1"L of the said bottom bag and will positively stop the same with its bottom forming portion projecting' through the port 9 of the drawer, and from the drawer, as shown in Fig. 1. Then the drawer is moved inward, as stated, it carries all of the bags, except the bottom-most bag, rearward therewith, but the ejecting lade will tear the bottom bag loose from the pin 11 and cause the same to be projected, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the said bottom bag may then be engaged by the fingers and easily removed from the drawer. rEhe pin 11 keeps the bag which is next to the bottom from being projected from the drawer by frictional contact with the bottom or lowermost bag.

l/Vhen the drawer is to be refilled with bags, it may be drawn out of the cabinetV and then the forked arm lil and the weight 12 may be turned over out of the way so as to permit the bags to be applied in the drawer, as shown. The drawers willV be made of the size to quite closely fit the bag, so that there will be as little waste space, as possible, in the cabinet. f

By this device, a large amount orp bags may be contained in small space, always kept clean, and always convenient for use when desired. Vhen a plurality of drawers Jfor different size bags are provided, each drawer should be marked to indicate the size of the sack that it contains.

What I claim is:

1. A bag dispensing cabinet comprising a casing, a drawer working in said casing, said drawer havingV an opening in its bottom and a bag discharge port at its front y end, an upwardly pressed ejector blade anchored below the drawer at one end and ei:- tended from its anchor torward in a general direction nearly parallel to the bottom of the drawer but slightly upward and through the bottom of the drawer for engagement with the back-turned ap of the lowermost bag contained in the drawer, and operative toeject the lower bag from the drawer when the latter has first been moved outward and then returned to closed position.

2. A bag dispensing` cabinet comprising a casing, a drawer working in said casing, said drawer having an opening in its bott-om and a bag discharge port in its front end, and an ejecting blade anchored below said drawer, working through the bottom thereof and adapted to engage a bag and project the same through the discharge port in said drawer when the latter has been first drawn outward and then returned to closed position, the said drawer having an upstanding pin adapted to be passed through the rear edge portions of a stack of bags held in said drawer.

8. A bag dispensing cabinet com] rising a casing, a drawer working' in said casing, said drawer having an opening in its bottom and a bag discharge port in its front end. an ejecting blade anchored below said drawer, working through the bottom thereof and adapted to engage a bag and project the same through the discharge port in sait drawer when the latter has been first drawn outward and then returned to closed position, and a vertically movable weight connected to said drawer and operative to press a stack of bags downward, the said drawer having an upstanding pin adapted to be passed through the rear edge portions of a stack of bags held in said drawer.

et. A bag dispensing cabinet comprising a casing, a drawer slidable in said casing and having an opening in its bottom and a bag discharge port at the lower portion of its front end, a metal plate located below said drawer and supporting the same, said plate having an upwardly spring-pressed ejecting blade working through the bottom of said drawer and adapted to project bags therefrom under sliding movements of the drawer.

5. A bag dispensing cabinet comprising av Y casing, a drawer slidable in said casing and `having an opening in its bottom and a bag discharge port at the lower portion of its front end, a metal plate located below said drawer and supporting the same, said plate `having an upwardly spring-pressed ejecting blade working through the bottom of said drawer and adapted to project bags therefrom under sliding movements of the drawer, and bearing lugs on the bottom of said drawer spaced on opposite sides of its bottom opening for the purposes set fortA In testimony whereof aiii; my signature in presence of two witnesses. c

c OLIVER STIFT. Witnesses:

EVA-E. KNIG, HARRY D. Krneonr..

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